Multiple births and multiple deaths.

[kitchenwitch]

Two out of the six Morrison sextuplets have died.

In the case of the Morrison family (the sextuplets born in Minnesota), six eggs were fertilized after using the drug Follistim. (According to the Morrison family website, the doctors said two mature and two immature/nonviable eggs would be released during that particular cycle, but later said that

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[unconformed]

I think they're stupid and I feel bad for the remaining babies.
I would, if ever in that situation, reduce to <3. And I wouldn't want my 22 week preemie on life support.

[iworshipsatin]

iawtc

[noodledays]

I wouldn't want my 22 week preemie on life support.

IAWTCx about a thousand

[owlsarentaholes]

Me too.

[absofrickinlute]

Imagine if the law could control the choices people made with their bodies based on what the law thought would result in the best outcome, regardless of what you wanted. Oh hurrah!

It's the choice of the parents - and thats the way it should be.

[tarrbaby]

They didn't do anything wrong in my opinion. They chose to take a chance, other people have successfully birthed sextuplets.

And according to the last few debates it was a fetus it didn't have any rights and the damage was done while it was still in the woman's body therefore she did nothing wrong!

I really think this is just another choice for a woman. If she can choose to abort then she can choose to carry her babies, all of them. It's no more selfish than a woman choosing not to have a baby and aborting. Isn't this what pro choice at it's finest should be about?

[cereta]

Let's see: do I want there to be a law or legal precedent that allows the state to compel a woman to have an abortion?

Oh, yeah, that's just a swell idea.

[kryspykitty]

If anyone should be faulted perhaps it should be the doctors for creating so many lives knowing that they would need to be "reduced" in order to surivive (btw...please excuse me if I have this wrong, but judging from what was discussed in the other thread on this it seems like the doctors have a pretty large role to play in these outcomes).But even then....legal action???

Well that and I love how easy it is to be judgmental of people going through such a tough ordeal, hell I can't even imagine the internal struggle I would have if a doctor advised me to "reduce" an *accidental* pregnancy....much less one I have put years of blood, sweat and tears into!!!

Calling these parents "stupid", "selfish", and wanting to penalize them because, heaven forbid they might have had slightly unrealistic hopes of ALL their children surviving??Beyond uncompassionate and unempathetic, and even a little immature.Ihmo.

[merlyn4401]

The docs didn't have anything to do with it. She was on fertility meds and her body released 10 eggs. It wasn't IVF where they implanted that many embryos.

[kryspykitty]

In that case I stand corrected!(it's a bit early so I'm afraid my brain cross circuited on that one I suppose.:P)

[kitchenwitch]

Actually, in this case, it was a year (singular) of blood, sweet, and tears (if one can have blood, sweat, and tears during one year of trying to conceive), not years. I think the couple jumped onto meds in order to conceive a bit too early in the game.

The doctors didn't create the lives in this case; had it been a case of IVF, I would absolutely think that the doctors were off their rockers. If anything, they're at fault for not seeing 10 viable eggs vs. 2, or or handing out medication so readily.